5 March 2019
What is the NGO Capability Building Tool? The NSW government has introduced a NGO Capability Building Tool to help NGO’s improve their capabilities around customer-centred approaches. Developed by the Department of Finance, Services, and Innovation, the tool aids NGOs in pinpointing areas for enhancement. This resource allows organisations delivering human services to self-assess against 10...
14 February 2019
Closing the Gap Report Announcement Today in Parliament, The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, released the Closing the Gap report. Closing the Gap began in response to a call for governments to commit to achieving equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in health and life expectancy within a generation. It is the story of a...
4 February 2019
The Multicultural Youth Australia (MYAN) Census Status Report 2017-18 was produced through a collaboration between the University of Melbourne, MYAN NSW and a range of government and community organisations from around Australia. The national study is the first of its kind and presents rich insights into how multicultural young people are faring socially, economically and culturally....
7 January 2019
MYAN NSW (Multicultural Youth Affairs Network) has released the ‘NSW Youth Settlement Snapshot: A report on the data 2016-17’. This is a comprehensive report on youth settlement trends in NSW across the Humanitarian, Skilled and Family Migration programmes. The report provides an overview of the settlement trends and basic demographic data, provided by the Department...
23 November 2018
A report released today by Australia’s largest food relief organisation, Foodbank, reveals that an alarming 4 million Australians have experienced food insecurity in the past 12 months. The report exposes a growing problem in country areas where, during the past 12 months, 1.5 million Australians have experienced the uncertainty of not knowing where their next...
19 July 2018
Local volunteering is the thread that binds communities and makes them strong In a fragile and turbulent world, volunteers are active in every major shock and stress situation experienced by communities – from earthquakes and flooding to climate change and local conflicts. Often working behind the scenes, they are the thread that binds communities together,...
20 March 2018
The Australian Government has launched a campaign to prevent Australians from inadvertently contributing to child exploitation through the practice of orphanage tourism, including by participating in misleading volunteer programs. The Smart Volunteering Campaign discourages Australians from any form of short-term, unskilled volunteering in overseas orphanages and provides guidelines on how to be a child-safe volunteer....
20 February 2018
The Australian Institute of Disaster Resilience (AIDR) develops, maintains and shares knowledge and learning to support a disaster-resilient Australia. Following a comprehensive development process a new handbook has been released on volunteer management. Handbook 12: Communities Responding to Disasters: Planning for Spontaneous Volunteers is now online. This new handbook builds directly upon the national Spontaneous...